Digital Giza | Fragment of pottery offering jar

Object register page:

One-half rough pottery traditional ceremonial [offering] jar, [Type A IV], (Old Kingdom); RB (red brown) ware. Illustration: No

ID

HUMFA_25-12-68a
Department

Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Classification

Vessels
Findspot

Pit G 6040 D, chamber
Material

Pottery
Dimensions

Height: 28.5+ cm Diameter: ca 14 cm
Credit Line

Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Date of Register Entry

12/05/1925

G 6040
- Site Name Western Cemetery

A History of the Giza Necropolis II, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Chapter 11: The Funerary Equipment Found in Burial Chambers, Page 330
- ID: HUMFA_25-12-68a
A History of the Giza Necropolis II, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Chapter 11: The Funerary Equipment Found in Burial Chambers, Page 330 (alternate version)
- ID: HUMFA_25-12-68a
A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix O: Cemetery G 6000, page 048
- ID: HUMFA_25-12-68a

Reisner, George A., and William Stevenson Smith. The Tomb of Hetep-Heres the Mother of Cheops: a Study of Egyptian Civilization in the Old Kingdom. A History of the Giza Necropolis 2. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1955, p. 71 (incorrectly attributed to G 6040 B).